A11850:182
Christs counsel to his languishing church of SardisChrists counsell to his languishing church of Sardis
Christs counsel to his languishing church of Sardis. Or, The dying or decaying Christian, with the means and helps of his recovery and strengthening. By Obadiah Sedgwick, B. of D. late preacher to the inhabitants of S. Mildreds Bread Street, LondonChrists counsell to his languishing church of Sardis. Or, The dying or decaying Christian, with the meanes and helpes of his recovery and strengthening. By Obadiah Sedgwicke, B. of D. late preacher to the inhabitants of S. Mildreds Bredstreet, London
London: printed by Thomas for L. Fawne, 1640
CHRISTS COUNSEL to His languishing CHURCH.CHRISTS COVNSELL to His languishing CHURCH.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Implantation of them is nothing but their free and effectual communication unto a person from Gods holy spirit; his hand alone sets all these heavenly plants, and from his sole goodness and power are all ⟨p. 75⟩those stars, those shining and beautiful stars, created in our souls.
The Implantation of them is nothing but their free and effectuall communication unto a person from Gods holy spirit; his hand alone sets all these heavenly plants, and from his sole goodnesse and power are all ⟨p. 75⟩those starres, those shining and beautifull stars, created in our soules.
Perfecting of holy principles, is nothing but a successive addition unto grace received, a rising or sprouting of those plants, a going on from a weaker, to a stronger degree.
The strengthening of them differs from both, for it is not a new creation of holy principles, but a restoration of them, and so it differs from grace implanted, and though it be an addition to grace received, yet this addition is not to grace as merely weak, but properly to grace as weakened, and so it differs from the perfecting ⟨p. 76⟩of holy principles.
The strengthening of them differs from both, for it is not a new creation of holy principles, but a restauration of them, and so it differs from grace implanted, and though it be an addition to grace received, yet this addition is not to grace as meerely weake, but properly to grace as weakened, and so it differs from the perfecting